The second half of the course was focused on practicing the rhetorical techniques that we learned from the first half of the quarter. As we approached to the Rhetoric-in-Practice Essay and Project (RIP), I decided to choose a different topic from the RA Paper. When we wrote the RIP ideas, I did research for a few topics. The topic that I initially wanted to write was sport shoes, but when we had the discussion in class, Professor Meghdadi brought a good point that many people already have sport shoes. Therefore, I wrote about the other topic that I had in mind, skydiving. When I started to write about the RIP Proposal Draft, I realized skydiving is a difficult topic to write because I did not understand this topic well, and I was struggling …show more content…
Professor Meghdadi also commented that I did not define a narrowed audience. The struggles in the process of writing the RIP almost led me to switch to a different topic because I was confused about the prompt and the requirements that I need to meet. Thankfully, I gained a better understanding of this assignment after Professor Meghdadi provided us an outline of the RIP Essay, and went over a few essays of my peers to give us an idea of his expectations. As I completed my second draft, I also received helpful suggestions from my peers, Franklin, Ethan, and Yi-Ling. One of the comments from Ethan was about the money issue that prevents people to try skydiving (Figure-15). When I did the final draft, I provided solutions to solve the money issue. One of the example that I used was that if individuals can cut down 30 cups of coffee from Starbucks, they can save enough of money to try skydiving (Figure-16). The process of developing the RIP Essay clearly showed me the importance of communication with peers. Without the help from my classmates, I would not be able to finish this assignment with a high quality of work. However, if I can redo this assignment, I would include a graphic of car accidents that happened each year and also more details …show more content…
The presentations were meant to test the knowledge that we gained from the assignments that we did throughout the quarter. For the presentation, I used what learned from the Rhetorical Analysis, which I incorporated the use of pathos, logos and ethos. The RIP essay that we did was solid reference for the presentation. However, I also wrote a transcript to organize and plan my presentation. The process of creating the PowerPoint was not complicated because most of the information were drawn from the RIP essay. After creating a PowerPoint, I practiced a couple of time in front of a mirror and also presented to my friend. The most important slide of the PowerPoint was the “So What” slide because it shows the purpose of this presentation (Figure-17). On the day of the presentation, I was not as nervous as I thought I would be. I believe it was because of the individual and group presentation that we did over the quarter. Overall, I enjoined this experience, and I appreciated the comments from Professor Meghdadi because they are the key to help me to become a better presenter. If I would be able to present again, I would move around instead of standing near the podium. I would also work on memorizing the materials rather than reading it off from my note
The impact and effectiveness of using proper rhetoric was a strategy of “good” writing that I was not aware of until my senior year of high school. While taking AP Language and Composition my junior year, my fellow students and I believed that we had survived countless essay workshop activities and writing assignments with emphasis on word choices, grammatical structure, syntax, punctuation and spelling. By the time we had entered AP Literature our senior year, we felt we could achieve success; we already knew how to write in the correct format and structur...
he evaluation of the overall rhetorical effectiveness for intended audience was a failure starting with the ethos of having no much credibility for the author, pathos, no real connection to emotion to aid the doctor, and not being able to see the real problem, and with the lack of logos to explain how to be able to obtain aid and help the student improve. As a result, in the editorial the authors had no success in persuading all the audience. For that reason, college students should be able to see the correct way to write their essay and the effective method for them to pass class with excellent essays.
Previous to this course, I had never been exposed to rhetoric, nor did I understand rhetoric and its influence the first time it was introduced to me. In addition to having limited exposure to rhetoric, this was my first real writing assignment for an AP course. The process I used to complete this essay is far different from the process I’ve developed throughout this school year. I allowed my anxiety to override my brain, resulting in me stressing myself throughout the whole writing process. Rather than accepting that I am good enough for an AP course, I doubted my writing skills and drove myself crazy by second-guessing every word and phrase I typed. I relentlessly researched rhetoric, vocabulary, and other writing knowledge, which would be beneficial for the future, but I let all of the writing skills I had not yet acquired prevent me from using the skills I did have to write a great essay. Now, I type everything I have to say about the essay topic and then review my work only fixing what needs to be fixed. At this point in time I had difficulty quoting text; I had to learn how to stop drop quoting and when to use brackets, commas, and ellipses. Looking back on this essay, I wish I had taken notes on the text, as it would have made analyzing structure far easier. I also wish I had asked for help when I felt unsure about rhetoric rather than trying to find answers
I have improved most in the WOVE area of visual communication this semester. Beginning the course, I did not know the correct way to create a powerpoint presentation that supports the speaker without being a distraction. This semester, I learned that only minimal wording is required on the slides to deliver the main points. The majority of the slideshow can be pictures, charts, or graphs, so long as it remains relevant to the topic. I specifically remember using this new technique for my part of the visual analysis presentation, keeping my bullet points to under five words, if possible.
However, I did notice that there were a few faults in the presentation, one being a fault that I personally consider may have negatively impacted our presentation. It seems to me that I was not able to deliver the presentation to the best of my ability as I had let my nerves get the best of me when talking to the staff. The reason for this was that I was not comfortable with taking on the speaking role that I was given and that there were last minute changes made to my slides right before presenting. Bruner, (1996) stated that the learning process for staff relies on the “meaningful dialogue” that is presented by the presenters. In this case, I think that my speech was not strong enough to grab the audience’s attention, thus not being able to portray my message about what an Ofsted inspection is and what the results from an Ofsted inspection mean. Nevertheless, although I was not able to present to the quality that I had wished, the feedback received was reassuring that I had not done terribly bad. I was able to see myself grow as a presenter as I noticed that my
Going into this class, I expected it to be just about writing speeches. It was that, but it was also something more. Over the course of the semester we did a lot of speech writing, but I also learned how to write speeches better than I did before entering this course. I structured my speeches better by using Toulmin’s model and learned new terms or refamiliarized myself with old ones I had previously forgotten, such as Cicero’s five canons of rhetoric. Throughout my reflection paper, I will discuss and reflect on the various things that I have taken away from this course.
Your presentation on Second Salem Brewing Company was done very well. You seemed to know your material, and was well prepared. If you were nervous, you definitely didn’t show it. Throughout the whole presentation, you were very calm and relaxed. You kept a steady rate and maintained great eye contact. Some people tend to look only at the professor when giving in-class presentations, but you looked around the whole classroom which I was very impressed by.
They pack a lot information from a large group in to a very short period of time. There is so much work and preparation that goes in to a project that felt a little like a review, meaning I do not think we presented the class with anything new but applied nursing knowledge to Peters story. In our presentation I feel that there where a few key point that were made clearly: the palliative approach to heart failure and discharge planning after an acute exacerbation of heart failure. I loved the discharge video we made for our presentation. Thinking back on the video we made and class we had on heart failure when Tammy Mclean visited, and I think an effective way to engage our class would have been to live act our SBL or even create a video and pause it every now and then to engage the class ask questions and allow questions to be asked. Over all I feel we did the best we could, talking fast and not engaging our audience as much as we could so we could show our video. Based on the peer feed back forms the audience loved the video and were very supportive of our presentation
During the course of this semester; the variety of writing styles and essays assigned to me in my communication skills class encouraged the development of my writing skills, as well as provided me with more self-assurance in my abilities. My writing, research, and presentation abilities enhanced through practice, determination, and the understanding I gained during this course. With every single writing assignment, I learned new innovative approaches and skills, which enhanced my abilities to improve my thoughts logically, enabling me to write more clearly, and to organize my papers more effectively. At the beginning of this semester; despite the fact that I already knew the terminology MAP: message, audience, purpose; I never really understood the significance of MAP. For this reason, my writing lacked clarity, organization, and my writings appeared less focused on the topics. As a result my research papers and essays did not flow as smoothly from one passage to the next. Furthermore, I was unaccustomed with the precise procedures used when writing an essay. For instance, my previous classes before college, although requiring a reference page, did not require me to include proper citations in my writings. After evaluating the quality of my writing toward the end of the semester, I recognized vast improvements in several areas of my writing. By concentrating on the beginning stages of my writings, I could distinguish ahead of time my audience and my message. As a result, my essays are clear, and I remain on topic. In addition to that using transition phrases efficiently also helps my writing to flow smoothly. The proper use of transitions makes my writings easy to follow from one topic to the next. I also learned that pre-writing...
Making a successful public presentation or speech to an audience was a very big task for me before I joined the public speaking class. I was always frightened and very nervous. Since then I now understand the process of making a speech or a presentation including coming up with a topic and from this topic develop the main points of the speech, research, organize my points, revise them, edit and make a magnificent presentation to any audience. People in the audience might sometimes agree or disagree with my opinion or points, it was therefore necessary to communicate my information clearly to the audience without making any judgments since every person was entitled to a different opinion and views about things.
The use of the powerpoint slides really contributed to the speech because, the audience could easily follow along throughout the speech without difficulty. I also think that incorporating the videos that went along...
Skydiving has been around since ancient Chinese times as a form of aerial stunts. Leonardo da Vinci and the Chinese are both credited for creating the parachute, but it was really in the 18th century when France both created it and used it by basically throwing themselves out of planes. Little did anyone know that skydiving would be one of the craziest sports today. Jumping out of a plane two and a half miles up into the sky would not be someone’s idea of a normal day. As bad as two and a half miles up in the sky is, try doing it traveling at a rate of one-hundred and sixty miles per hour with just a parachute to save you. To many people this would be a nightmare; but to some of us, it is the biggest thrill of our lives.
In my opinion, I consider extreme sports a fun thing to do, but on the other side, they can also be dangerous. Sky diving down from Mount Everest can be a fun experience, although, people can die because they don’t have their bottle of oxygen. So, I suggest they take their bottle of oxygen in order to skydive down Mount Everest. Skydiving is an “exploration adventure” (source one) because if they really want to go and do something wild, once they die they won’t be able to go and do it. Mount Everest is a really great place to go skydiving because the mountain is high and it will make you want to do it again.
I’ve personally loathed doing presentations and it is an area in which I am struggling in, however as I have progressed and gained more insight into what makes an outstanding presentation, be it through books, attending lecture in research module, watching ted talks and guest speeches. All of this combined has significantly contributed to my ability to better my presentation skills and I believe I understand the criteria of what it takes to give a good presentation because I demonstrated this in my research module where I was expected to deliver a presentation on a topic of my choice, which was capitalism and the Marxists critique. It is something that I am passionate about and comfortable I articulating, I prefer to have a PowerPoint presentation, however I do find it more effective if I am speaking in detail rather than speaking off the board to get my argument across to the audience. I am still awaiting for the feedback, hoverer I am hopeful of something positive and maybe some constructive criticism. I believe that I still have room for improvement but with time and practise I believe that my presentation skills will evolve into the standard that is required (1st and 2:1) and the standard that I have personally set myself to
Practice is a major role that needs to be played when it comes to presenting. Practicing, I feel gives you more confidence in your speech, and more preparation than if you were to not practice. Rehearsing before the speech then presenting makes you seem like you actually know what you are talking about even if the only reason you know all these facts is because of study and practicing. Practicing through my speech really helps me with my presentation, if I practice enough, I feel very confident to where I wouldn’t need t a paper to look at notes during the speech. This concept is important for anything. Practicing will always help you with any future task.